Zouden de epische gedichten uit de Griekse oudheid hun oorsprong kunnen hebben in dans? Dat is het uitgangspunt van deze onderzoeker: https://danceofthemuses.info/homeric-dance.html
Dit is wel even andere koek dan de droge vertaalsessies die ik me herinner van school: niets dode taal, dit leeft!
Over deze video:
This is a video demonstration, performed at St. John’s College, Annapolis in 2001, of the way in which a six-measure modern Greek syrtós, a dactylic round dance descended from the ancient world, corresponds in its articulations to the Homeric hexameter. In particular, the trochaic caesura and the bucolic diaeresis exactly frame a distinctive retrogression in the rightward motion of the dance. There is no claim here of authentic performance practice. The piece was filmed indoors, on a wooden floor, and hence with an unnatural volume (although Homer does speak of an unbreakable voice), and without a lyre to boot.